No Borders: Journeys of an Indian Journalist by Mukul Sharma; Daanish Books, Delhi, 2006; pp 248, Rs 425 (hardback). ADITYA NIGAM No Borders by well known journalist and activist, Mukul Sharma, is a journalistic account of struggles of common people all over the world, as well as a bold attempt to break out of the normal representational conventions of the global media industry. These conventions, whereby the western man comments, theorises on and makes available information and knowledge about the global east/south to it and the rest of the world, are as much part of the media industry as of the global academic world. In this representational schema, as the author puts it, the south is either mired in poverty or in fratricidal conflict, or is at best a place of emerging markets. These conventions, it is well known, are constituted by intricate power relations in such a way that they traverse even radical and liberal ends of the spectrum.